PS3 Supercomputers....part III

Saturday, November 3. 2007

PS3 Supercomputers....part III

We've been tracking the potential of the PS3 as a Superecomputer since it came out, this is a very interesting additional story

A project that harnesses the spare processing power of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) to help understand the cause of diseases has entered the record books.

Guinness World Records has recognised folding@home (FAH) as the world's most powerful distributed computing network.

FAH has signed up nearly 700,000 PS3s to examine how the shape of proteins affect diseases such as Alzheimer's.

The network has more than one petaflop of computing power - the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second.

Watch this space, I don't think we've seen that last of this machine's potential. Previous posts of ours on this beastie are here and here.

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